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Programs: Slide show on Papua New Guinea
PAPUA NEW GUINEA Slide show Mort Loveman will present "Papua New Guinea: Space Age to Stone Age." When, where: 1 p.m. Wednesday at Roxbury Park Community Center, 471 S. Roxbury Drive, Beverly Hills. Admission, info: Free. (310) 550-4761. CAMPING...Tags: Los Angeles Times, Roxbury, Manhattan (New York City), Travel, Jerusalem (Israel)
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Foreign tourist boards
For tourist information on selected foreign destinations, contact the government offices below. For information about a country not listed, call the United Nations at (212) 963-1234, dial 0 and ask for the number of the country's U.N. mission or...Tags: Belize, Tahiti (French Polynesia, France), Sweden, Iceland, Nepal
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D. Carleton Gajdusek dies at 85; Nobel Prize winner identified exotic disease, was unrepentant pedophile
Dr. D. Carleton Gajdusek, the brilliant yet deeply flawed pediatrician, virologist and anthropologist who won the 1976 Nobel Prize in medicine for his identification and description of kuru, the exotic disease of a remote tribe in New Guinea that was...Tags: Animals, U.S. Army, National Institutes of Health, Armed Forces, Immune System
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Foreign tourism offices
For tourist information on selected foreign destinations, contact the government offices below. For information about a country not listed, call the United Nations at 212-963-1234, dial 0 and ask for the number of the country's U.N. mission or delegation....Tags: Belize, Sweden, Tahiti (French Polynesia, France), Serbia, Iceland
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Foreign government tourist offices
For tourist information on selected foreign destinations, contact the government offices below. For information about a country not listed, call the United Nations at (212) 963-1234, dial 0 and ask for the number of the country's U.N. mission or...Tags: Belize, Tahiti (French Polynesia, France), Sweden, Iceland, Nepal
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Where does your wood come from? Information is sketchy
Tribune foreign correspondentLike organic milk or fair-trade coffee, "sustainable" wood has the ring of responsibility. That's why a growing number of big-name do-it-yourself and flooring stores are adopting environmental pledges. But not all promises are created equal. Some brands...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, China, Building Material, Malaysia, Forests
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Official foreign tourist offices
Here is a list of selected government tourist offices. For information about a country not listed, call the United Nations at (212) 963-1234; dial 0 and ask for the number of the country's U.N. delegation. Anguilla: Anguilla Tourist Board, (800) 553-...Tags: Belize, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Sweden, Tahiti (French Polynesia, France), Iceland
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Ancient tongues fade away
Sun StaffMarie Smith knows that her language - the Alaskan tongue of Eyak - will die with her. And she mourns its passing. "If you were expecting a little baby, and it went back to its home so that it wasn't born alive, how would you feel?" says Smith, 85, who...Tags: Salt, Language, Culture, Guatemala, Wisconsin
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Foreign government tour offices
For tourist information on select foreign destinations, contact the government offices below. For a country not listed, call the United Nations at (212) 963-1234, dial 0 and ask for the country's U.N. mission or delegation. Anguilla: Anguilla Tourist...Tags: Belize, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Tahiti (French Polynesia, France), Sweden, Iceland
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Foreign Government Tourist Offices
Here is a list of selected government tourist offices. For information about a country not listed, call the United Nations at (212) 963-1234; dial 0 and ask for the number of the country's U.N. delegation. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD The...Tags: Belize, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Sweden, Tahiti (French Polynesia, France), Iceland
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Genes offer sampling of hope and fear
Tribune staff reporterIt was supposed to be a simple bargain--an honest if somewhat bizarre deal struck between one of the last Stone Age peoples and the most technologically advanced society. Soon after the Hagahai emerged from the cloud forests of Papua New Guinea in the...Tags: Medical Procedures and Tests, Arteriosclerotic Vascular Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Howard University, National Institutes of Health
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